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#42: Jason Mraz (27-Apr-08) - Kool Haus
ah jason mraz, what a long hiatus he seems to have taken. i saw him at kool haus about two and a half years ago, so it definitely has been a long time. he hadn't released an album with new material since then, but has had a bunch of things released on the net.
he had a bunch of opening acts, which i skipped out on the first two. one of them was a magician! i've never heard of or seen a show where there was a non-musical opening act. and his name was justin kredible! what a perfect stage name for a magician! he also served as an MC for the show and introduced the other acts.
the second opening act was the makepeace brothers. i'm not sure if they were actually blood brothers. i don't know anything about them, but they came out for a song with the 3rd opening act, bushwalla. i swear bushwalla had a song released at least 5 years ago because that name sounds so familiar, but i can't put my finger on it. he was good too, very energetic and random (ie. stripping down to a unitard for the last song).
then justin kredible came back on stage to do a magic trick, and put a tent up on stage and jason mraz magically appeared out of it. what an entrance!
jason played a mix of new and old songs, which was good and expected. talking to a friend who went to 2 different shows in california, it turns out that he has 2 different set lists and rotates them. which makes sense, just to mix things up a bit. the only thing i wish he did was play more of his upbeat, fast songs. at times i thought there were too many slow songs, which slows the tone of the show down. i really can't wait for his new album to come out, it will be long overdue.
one of my favourite things that people do at shows is invite everyone on stage (opening acts and other people who are on tour with them) and do this massive song together. matt costa did it, and so did jason mraz. it was actually a song that bushwalla sang, and all the opening acts and support people came on stage to play the tambourine, jump around, dance, and generally have a good time. i love when they do this because everyone looks like they're having so much fun. so they did this, and then they abruptly stopped the song and froze in position. then justin kredible introduced every single person and took a polaroid of them and threw it into the crowd. they were frozen in place for a very long time, it was quite impressive. by the time he got to jason, he whispered to justin to hurry up b/c everyone was probably getting tired.
i thought that was the last song before the encore. but it wasn't, jason came out to do an acoustic song. and then he left and came back for the encore. i forget how good his songs are from both his first 2 albums. and his voice is absolutely amazing. great show all around.
next up: kanye west's glow in the dark tour at my favourite venue, the molson amphitheatre!
ah jason mraz, what a long hiatus he seems to have taken. i saw him at kool haus about two and a half years ago, so it definitely has been a long time. he hadn't released an album with new material since then, but has had a bunch of things released on the net.he had a bunch of opening acts, which i skipped out on the first two. one of them was a magician! i've never heard of or seen a show where there was a non-musical opening act. and his name was justin kredible! what a perfect stage name for a magician! he also served as an MC for the show and introduced the other acts.
the second opening act was the makepeace brothers. i'm not sure if they were actually blood brothers. i don't know anything about them, but they came out for a song with the 3rd opening act, bushwalla. i swear bushwalla had a song released at least 5 years ago because that name sounds so familiar, but i can't put my finger on it. he was good too, very energetic and random (ie. stripping down to a unitard for the last song).
then justin kredible came back on stage to do a magic trick, and put a tent up on stage and jason mraz magically appeared out of it. what an entrance!
jason played a mix of new and old songs, which was good and expected. talking to a friend who went to 2 different shows in california, it turns out that he has 2 different set lists and rotates them. which makes sense, just to mix things up a bit. the only thing i wish he did was play more of his upbeat, fast songs. at times i thought there were too many slow songs, which slows the tone of the show down. i really can't wait for his new album to come out, it will be long overdue.
one of my favourite things that people do at shows is invite everyone on stage (opening acts and other people who are on tour with them) and do this massive song together. matt costa did it, and so did jason mraz. it was actually a song that bushwalla sang, and all the opening acts and support people came on stage to play the tambourine, jump around, dance, and generally have a good time. i love when they do this because everyone looks like they're having so much fun. so they did this, and then they abruptly stopped the song and froze in position. then justin kredible introduced every single person and took a polaroid of them and threw it into the crowd. they were frozen in place for a very long time, it was quite impressive. by the time he got to jason, he whispered to justin to hurry up b/c everyone was probably getting tired.
i thought that was the last song before the encore. but it wasn't, jason came out to do an acoustic song. and then he left and came back for the encore. i forget how good his songs are from both his first 2 albums. and his voice is absolutely amazing. great show all around.
next up: kanye west's glow in the dark tour at my favourite venue, the molson amphitheatre!
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